John R. Logan

FAMILY TIESCindy Thompson has always kept her infatuation for her brother-in-law secret. She even moved away to try to forget. But now the widowed father of triplets needs the only family he's got...her. Flynn Mallory doesn't believe in prayers, until Cindy's loving tenderness becomes an answer to his own.PROMISE OF GRACECoping with the physical trauma of a terrible accident is hard for Grace Stanton. When her fiance abandons her as well, Grace begins to turn her back on God. Dr. Noah Brady knows his surgeon's skills can heal her wounds, but can his loving heart restore her faith?

"You can learn a lot by figuring out how cities get built. That is the fundamental assumption of Urban Fortunes. Compared to some other approaches to an urban sociology, we get physical. We study the land and how real estate becomes a commodity that people put buildings on. We want to learn how the configurations of houses, offices, and factories make some people better off and others worse off. We explore not only how benefits and costs accumulate for individuals but also how they aggregate to create durable differences among places. We try to determine what this then means to people on the ground making a life in the homes and neighborhoods created in this process. That was our goal when we first wrote the book, and here we have a chance to reflect on what we tried to do and how it looks in retrospect and to offer the reader a revised guide to the chapters that follow."--Preface p. vii.